Talking Progressive (with Jay Tholen)

Had the pleasure of reaching Petter Andreas Carlsen, guitarist, singer and songwriter both solo and with his duo project, Pil & Bue. We spoke about the rock scene in Norway, the history of his relationship with music and his band and plans for the future. Find Pil & Bue on bandcamp: https://pilbue.bandcamp.com and on facebook.

I sit down with Barry "Epoch" Topping to discuss how to get into composing music for video games, what titles inspired him and, also, we dwell on some rather obscure games, trivias and reflect on our young teenage years and national music scenes. You can find Barry @nostoppingepoch on Twitter or his bandcamp page https://nostoppingepoch.bandcamp.com/

Together with game developer and musician Jay Tholen, we talk all about progressive: how our love for the genre started and where it took from there. We also look at 70s/80s/90s prog, prog rock in gaming and all around, along with a small discussion on the soundtrack of the next games Jay's working on. Here's a list of the bands we mentioned (the obscure ones at least): PFM Banco del Mutuo Soccorso Area Spock's Beard Magma Wobbler Bill Wurtz Il Segno del Comando

For the first episode of Strings and Screams, I wanted to go back to an album which meant very much to me, especially considering it's 40 years old this year. A track-by-track breakdown of The Cure's Pornography, what it meant to me and what it means now.